Title :
Mobile agents and the SARA digital library
Author :
Yang, Yanyan ; Rana, Omer F. ; Georgousopoulos, Christos
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Cardiff Univ., UK
Abstract :
Remote-sensing data about the Earth´s environment is being created at an ever-increasing rate and distributed among heterogeneous remote sites. Traditional models of distributed computing are inadequate to support such complex applications, which generally involve a large quantity of data. We explore an approach based on mobile agent techniques for autonomous data processing and information discovery on the Synthetic Aperture Radar Atlas (SARA) digital library which consists of distributed multi-agency archives of multi-spectral remote-sensing imagery of the Earth. Our goal is to enable automatic and dynamic configuration of distributed parallel computing resources and to efficiently support on-demand processing of such a remote-sensing archive. The design, architecture and implementation of a prototype system that applies this approach is reported
Keywords :
digital libraries; distributed programming; geographic information systems; multi-agent systems; remote sensing; synthetic aperture radar; visual databases; Earth; SARA digital library; Synthetic Aperture Radar Atlas; autonomous data processing; distributed computing; heterogeneous remote sites; information discovery; mobile agents; multi agent systems; parallel computing; prototype system; remote-sensing data; Computer architecture; Data processing; Distributed computing; Earth; Mobile agents; Parallel processing; Prototypes; Remote sensing; Software libraries; Synthetic aperture radar;
Conference_Titel :
Advances in Digital Libraries, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0659-3
DOI :
10.1109/ADL.2000.848371
